A study was conducted to validate a school behavior rating scale on a sample of 1,153 elementary school children. Results indicate stable means and variances over grades kindergarten through fifth grade and a stable factor structure. Sex differences on behavior ratings favored females over males at all grade levels. School behavior ratings…

The purpose of this study was to construct-validate the REPI. The judgmental data of 25 content specialists were examined. The response data of 416 students were item analyzed and submitted to principal components analyses with orthogonal and oblique rotations. The items were generally representative of the content universe and 50 items optimally…

Part of a Head Start longitudinal study on disadvantaged children and their first school experience, this report provides: 1) a description of interrelationships among certain demographic indices, maternal attitudes, and behaviors reported in the parent interview using factor analytic techniques, and 2) plans for obtaining a reduced set of scores…

Measurement of pupil attitudes can be influenced by the pupil's ability and motivation to read, particularly for those students whose ability is below average. To obtain a valid measure of sixth grade pupil attitudes as they related to Family Life education, the reading factor needed to be eliminated as much as possible. A test utilizing…

The investigation attempted to establish the factorial validity and reliability of an industrial selection device based on Herzberg's theory of work motivation related to the school organization. The questionnaire was reworded to reflect an educational work situation; and a random sample of 197 students, 118 administrators, and 432 teachers was…

THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE 2-YEAR STUDY WAS TO MEASURE THE SOURCES OF INTERPERSONAL CONCERN AMONG THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED. BASED ON SCHULZ'S THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION, "THE SCHEDULE OF INTERPERSONAL CONCERNS" WAS DEVELOPED. THIS INSTRUMENT CONTAINS 59 ITEMS DIVIDED INTO FIVE FACTORS--REJECTION, RESPONSIBILITY,…

The vocational choices (industrial and/or agricultural) of 863 adolescents from 4 rural Italian provinces of differing socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds were analyzed in terms of the motivational need underlying vocational choice. These provinces included the traditionally rural Cosenza in southern Italy, the more developed Treviso and Reggio…

A number of different ways of ascertaining whether or not a test measures the same thing in different cultures are examined. Methods range from some that are obvious and simple to those requiring statistical and psychological sophistication. Simpler methods include such things as having candidates "think aloud" and interviewing them about how they…

Populations of factorially simple and complex data were generated with first the oblique and orthogonal factor models, and then solutions based on special cases of the general orthomax criterion were compared on the basis of these characteristics. The results are discussed and implications noted. (DEP)

Presents the results of a study examining whether the two dimensions of Career Choice Attitudes and Career Choice Competencies are interrelated as hypothesized in the Crites model of career maturity. To test six associational hypotheses derived from the Crites model three career maturity instruments were administered to ninth-grade pupils (N=90).…

The semantic differential was used to assess the properties of affect elicited by occupational stimuli. Vocationally committed men studying medicine, business, and engineering responded to a semantic differential containing occupational concepts. Results show a semantic space for all three groups composed of three orthogonal dimensions of affect…

Examines intrinsic individual differences in conceptual behavior with a multivariate model, three mode factor analysis. The analyses yielded five individual difference performance factors, three stage factors, and four response components indicating the importance of a multivariate representation of complex behavior. (Author/DEP)

The Personal Health Survey (PHS) is a 200-item inventory designed to sample symptomatology as subjective experiences from the 12 principal domains of organ system and psychophysiological functioning. This study investigates the factorial validity of the empirically constructed scales. (Author)

Compared two- and three-factor solutions for the 12 subtests of WISC and WISC-R for 164 black, white, and Latino children aged seven to 15 referred to school psychologists because of concerns about their intellectual ability. Factor structures of WISC and WISC-R for same group of subjects are similar. (Author)